Den 24 juli 1992 var en fredag under stjärntecknet ♌. Det var 205 e dagen i året. Förenta staternas president var George Bush.
Om du föddes den här dagen är du 33 år gammal. Din sista födelsedag var den torsdag 24 juli 2025, 345 dagar sedan. Din nästa födelsedag är den fredag 24 juli 2026, om 19 dagar. Du har bott i 12 398 dagar, eller cirka 297 572 timmar, eller cirka 17 854 369 minuter, eller cirka 1 071 262 140 sekunder.
Date: 25 July 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Aon Corporation, an insurance holding company, said yesterday that it had agreed to acquire Frank B. Hall & Company, a unit of Reliance Group Holdings Inc., for about $475 million. Aon said in a statement that it would pay as much as $125 million in cash and $350 million in preferred stock. The transaction is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter.
Date: 25 July 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The United Technologies Corporation said that its Otis Elevator Company unit had formed a joint venture with PRDiE, a state-owned elevator company, to sell, install and service elevators in Poland. Otis will hold a 70 percent stake in the joint venture, to be called Otis-Krakow, United Technologies said in a statement. Otis will upgrade and retool PRDiE's facilities in Krakow and transform the operation into a service center for the region, the company said.
Date: 24 July 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Cascade International Inc.'s 29 stores have been auctioned for $370,000 to bidders who largely intend to liquidate the assets rather than start new stores. A final auction here yesterday of furniture, equipment and supplies from headquarters was expected to fetch $20,000 to $30,000, the auction administrator said. The money will help pay Cascade's creditors, who are owed $16 million. The federally appointed trustee for the failed Boca Raton, Fla., retailer is also considering whether to file claims against several people and companies suspected of fraud.
Date: 25 July 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ross Cosmetics Distribution Centers says its survival would be seriously jeopardized if its main supplier was unable to ship goods to the company. Ross also disclosed in its latest quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that its inventory soared to $11.67 million in the quarter ended May 31, from $7.63 million in the quarter ended Feb. 29. Ross, based in Duncan, S.C., had enough inventory at the end of the last quarter to cover 138 days of sales.
Date: 25 July 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Thermo Instrument Systems Inc. said it made a $21-a-share, or $158 million, cash tender offer in connection with its bid to buy the Nicolet Instrument Corporation, which designs and services measurement and biomedical instruments. The offer is contingent on the number of shares tendered, added to already owned shares, giving Thermo Instrument 75 percent of Nicolet's common stock outstanding. Nicolet has 7.5 million shares outstanding.
Date: 25 July 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Prime Computer Inc., which previously said it would sell its computer hardware division to a group of its executives, said that it would shut the division instead. The Computer Systems Business Unit accounted for $150 million of Prime's $1.3 billion in revenue last year. It employs more than 400 people.
Date: 24 July 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Pepsico Inc. is looking to the mountains in its search for alternatives to traditional soft drinks. Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers has agreed to distribute the Grayson Mountain Water Company's Grayson Sparkling, a clear, sparkling, flavored water that comes from a source in the Blue Ridge Mountains and is bottled in Virginia, Grayson said. Terms were not disclosed. Pepsi began distributing another product, Grayson 100 Percent Pure Mountain Water, for the Boca Raton, Fla., company in 1991. More than a million bottles of Grayson Sparkling were sold during its first two days on the market last week; Grayson estimates sales will reach $30 million in its first year.
Date: 25 July 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sneaker fads may be fleeting, but athletic shoes may last for decades. That's why Nike Inc. is introducing sneakers made of recycled materials. Nike, the country's largest athletic shoe manufacturer, said that starting in the spring it would sell a new version of its Air Escape Low shoes with soles made of about 20 percent recycled materials. The shoes, to be priced at $75, will be sold in boxes made of recycled paper.
Date: 25 July 1992
By Ronald Sullivan
Ronald Sullivan
A two-year investigation of organized crime's penetration of New York newspaper deliveries has uncovered evidence of the theft of about 20,000 newspapers each day at The Daily News last year, state prosecutors said in Manhattan yesterday. An Assistant District Attorney, Sean Dwyer, said the investigation showed that the theft was organized by members of the Colombo and Lucchese crime families and that it followed the pattern of similar thefts at The New York Post last year by a third Mafia crime family.
Date: 25 July 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Philippine Government has signed an agreement to restructure $3.8 billion in medium- and long-term commercial bank debt. Officials said today that the country plans to sell new government or agency securities in the near future. The agreement reduces annual principal and interest payments on the Philippines' external debt to $3.1 billion from $5.4 billion, said Jose Cuisia, the governor of the central bank. It will also lower the debt payments next year to around 20 percent of exports from 36 percent in 1986, he said. The Philippines' debt currently totals about $30 billion.